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New explanation for why planes are falling out of the sky just dropped.

Also pre-emptive volcel-kamala

42% of americans play video games for at least 3 hours per week ๐Ÿฅด

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[โ€“] Dyno@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

a job that requires you to speak on the radio for hours a day
gamers
the aviation world isn't ready for the amount of n-bombs

[โ€“] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there's a bunch of nerds who larp ATC and pilot stuff on ms flight sim or whatever the main competitor is.

real pilots and atc are in there sometimes to keep in practice. this is slightly less horrible than it sounds, like replacing racecar drivers with those guys who have simrigs that cost more than a normal car.

[โ€“] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think basically every ATC Sim guy I know has actually applied to be a flight controller so my question is more what hidden applicants they're even looking for there

[โ€“] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was that way with emergency management games, but it turns out fire departments are mostly being repeatedly traumatised while sleep-deprived. It was such a bad transition from something that's fun because I can restart without consequence to something where it's fun in the way that using cocaine would probably be fun to me for the first month. There's even a culture of rejecting your wins and feeling any kind of positive brain chemicals from it because that makes you respond just as negatively to losses.

[โ€“] Noodles4dinner@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Those towers are going to smell really bad.

[โ€“] poster596@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

stonks-up barrel roll incidents

[โ€“] plinky@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

well, you can get very high k/d ratio as a traffic controller during war crimes cup so

[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A shortage of air traffic controllers? How did that happen??

[โ€“] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

a dozen terms of reagan

[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I call orders and run expo in a kitchen and Papers, Please is really close to what ill do for a job. Its just food instead of paperwork. I juat realized Papers Please is just a more complex version of Burger Time

[โ€“] happybadger@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What if you could play the most stressful video game of all time and any mistake kills hundreds of people? Also nobody else wants to play it because it's very stressful and any mistake kills hundreds of people.

[โ€“] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

also if you make a mistake that get a bunch of people killed, you have to keep playing, because if you stop playing for even a second, you're jeopardizing the lives of hundreds or thousands of people in the air

[โ€“] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for the any% runs

Tilted towers kelly

[โ€“] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

โ€œMayday mayday. This is Captain Skully. Weโ€™ve had a bird strike. Attempting to land on the Hudson.โ€

โ€œLololol noob!โ€

[โ€“] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

3 hours per week? amateur numbers

[โ€“] Dessa@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

First, they targeted gamers. Gamers.

[โ€“] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Airforceproud95 cracking his knuckles